What's the difference between soliloquizing and soliloquy?
Soliloquizing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soliloquize
Example Sentences:
Soliloquy
Definition:
(n.) The act of talking to one's self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one's self; monologue.
(n.) A written composition, reciting what it is supposed a person says to himself.
Example Sentences:
(1) But rather than take my seat, the bell was my signal to take the stage, from where I delivered an hour-long soliloquy.
(2) Deliciously groomed and styled by someone who seemingly doesn't hate women, Jodie Foster was fully prepared for the biggest soliloquy of her life.
(3) This essay is an attempt to pull together a multiplicity of phenomena variously called "private speech," "egocentric speech," "self-communicative speech," "self-guiding speech" or "soliloquy" within a unified perspective.
(4) In Britain the conversation had been largely a soliloquy conducted by Jamie Oliver, who has raised the price of soda in his restaurants, with the money going to children’s anti-obesity programmes.
(5) Then the militia guy, who was in his twenties, delivered the strangest soliloquy I have ever heard in my life, more surreal than anything else I’ve experienced, even on stage, from Beckett on down.
(6) An "intrapersonal soliloquy" is exemplified by the person who has looked up a telephone number in the directory and repeats it to himself for better retention as he prepares to dial the telephone, while "interpersonal soliloquy" is illustrated by one's rehearsal of a speech destined for public delivery.
(7) An example of what can be called "regressive soliloquy" is the instinctive cry of a newborn baby or the involuntary curse of a person who has just struck his thumb with a hammer.
(8) Bang!” soliloquy eerily reminiscent of his research – even though her life has been nowhere near as rough as Gilligan’s case studies.
(9) Meanwhile "A Striking Soliloquy" sums up the commuter's dilemma – so akin to that of Shakespeare's most troubled hero – in just six well-chosen syllables.
(10) You could see the Lord Justice's brows furrow as he dumped a little soliloquy of problems in Tony Blair's lap last week.
(11) We have programmed a computer interview to facilitate soliloquy and have studied its effectiveness.
(12) Arena's main soliloquy is breathtaking: wearing a face-painted mask of kaleidoscopic colours and in drag (a red dress), his character declaims a kind of manifesto: "I wish to live in the drama of schism, of division … Live for a different idea, cultivate love for another possibility unforeseen, full of attraction and danger, necessary, inevitable, fatal... " Written by Punzo, made rhetorical by Arena, who speaks his lines with a mixture of mockery and defiance, across a range of facial expression that excites as much as it discomforts.
(13) Tamblyn made her loathsome character pop and fizz, Jackson was very Jackson (at one point, he bursts out laughing and say, "I can't believe I'm reading this...." - a horrifying, blowjob-heavy soliloquy), and Goggins earns his second-lead status effortlessly.
(14) You can imagine how much “wisdom” his three minute soliloquy on the dangers of encryption contained.
(15) She would spin a 15-minute soliloquy, her arms waving and her face one big smile, about having no home, about riding the subway at night to sleep and staying away from men trying to grab her in the dark: “Of course I pissed in my pants.
(16) What with his flair for introspection, his gift for ribald parody, his excoriating candour, his contempt for 'phoneyness', his weakness for soliloquy and his desperate conviction that the time is out of joint, Jimmy Porter is the completest young pup in our literature since Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
(17) But Armando took me by the hand, led me into the rehearsal space, I did my soliloquy, and he liked it.
(18) Travellers who started their working week this morning with a long, rainy trudge to the office as a result of the latest round of industrial action by LU staff now have a little poetic solace on offer in the form of two new McGough poems: "A Striking Soliloquy" and "Tube strike Haiku".
(19) Later Martin Freeman's Watson delivered an affecting soliloquy at Holmes's presumed grave – unaware that Holmes (or someone just like him) was watching.
(20) 'The result is the beginning of a conversation, not the closing statement of a soliloquy.'